On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 10:21:01AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have not found the real source of the problem,

It's a browser, after all ;-D

> but I have found out why it worked on other machines and not on this one:

\o/

> some months
> (years?) ago I made this i386 machine use `firefox-esr:amd64` because
> Firefox tabs kept crashing (even for fairly simple pages).
> 
> [ I've been using the i386 version of `firefox-esr` without problem on
>   other machines, so I don't know why it crashed on this one, but
>   switching to the amd64 version did "solve" the problem back then.
>   My crystal ball told me that it was probably due to the relatively
>   large about of RAM (24G) available in this machine confusing Firefox
>   into the illusion that it can allocate a lot more memory than the i386
>   architecture really allows, and thus getting memory allocation
>   failure.  ]

Congrats :-)

Cheers
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t

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